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Preseason ACL Injuries Can Be Drastically Reduced. Here's How

 

Jordy Nelson's ACL tear didn't have to happen. Neither did Kelvin Benjamin's. Or Orlando Scandrick's: A non-contact injury, just like the others. Many of the other ACL tears, hamstring pulls and soft-tissue injuries that have plagued this preseason did not have to happen.

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Interesting indeed.

 

I'll be a bore and mention for the 50th time I tore acl's in each knee playing soccer, Each time I knew a split second beforehand that I'd planted wrong.

 

I'm so amazed at how far we've come in re-habbing this injury. Second acl tear had me on crutches for 6 months and limping for a year. I had to wear a Larry Krystowiak (Bucks fans know him) brace to resume soccer and never could move laterally very well ever again.

 

Here's hoping Jordy doesn't miss a beat.

So many variables involved that can instantly alter how and why a non contact injury happens. 

 

Down and distance. Need more yards? How many? What's the best option to get those yards?

Defender position. Alters where you need to go. 

 

These things happen in split fractions of seconds. 

 

The play. 

 

In the air Jordy decided he needed to get outside. He planted his right leg thinking he'd catch turf. Body angle. Right leg angle. Where's the ground??? I thought it was a simple hyper extension. 

 

While I get all the metrics. We're talking about split second decisions here and chaotic variables that have zero correlation with case studies. 

 

Sometimes injuries are randomly unpredictable. 

Originally Posted by ChilliJon:

 

Sometimes injuries are randomly unpredictable. 

 

And then sometimes they're not. Thus the point of the article. 70% of ACL's occur in non-contact.

 

These players don't have to take a helmet to the knee to suffer an ACL tear; in fact, Hewett's research indicates that 70 percent of ACL injuries in the NFL, like many of this preseason's high-profile injuries, are not contact-related. Many outstanding athletes jump, land and plant their feet in ways that, combined with their great size and speed, create forces that will inevitably result in injuries.

High-risk players don't have to get crossed off the draft board or left off the shopping list in free agency.

 

"Here's the good news," Hewett said. "There are things that can be done that have been demonstrated again and again to work in randomized trials. With neuromuscular training, we can reduce those risk factors."

 

So NFL teams (or any other sports teams) can identify athletes with high ACL risks, alter their training regimens and lower their non-contact-injury risks by more than half.

 

Jordy had a type of tell-tale hip surgery that automatically put him at a high risk of ACL. As did Bulaga. Both tore their ACL's s/p the surgeries. For as hard as Jordy worked this off season you do have to wonder if given these test regimes he could have prevented it. This isn't just guessing. This appears to be proven science in cutting his chances in by more than half.

Does hip surgery differ from a broken fibula? If no is Cobb on borrowed time? Is his training regiment different? If yes then he's in the clear and no risk, yes? Until he isn't? 

 

Does GB hold payment to Catapult? What did their data say? Did GB ignore it? 

 

And where do we go with this data if Jordy followed his training regiment by the book and blew out his ACL trying to make a play he's made so many times before? 

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